Revise Three-Strikes? At What Cost?
Joseph M. Bessette and Jennifer E. Walsh In 1995 police in San Diego County arrested a gang member riding in a car with two other convicted felons and a sawed-off …
Crime is Not a Hopeless Problem
By Jennifer E. Walsh, Ph.D., a Professor of Political Science at Azusa Pacific University in Los Angeles County, California. She is also the author of Three Strikes Laws (Greenwood Publishing, …
Chain Gangs
Are they archaic, brutal and inhumane or do they work to lower the recidivistic crime rate? by Justine Sturm How do we as a society lower the recidivistic crime rate …
Law & Order Survey – New Zealand
Dame Sian, Peter Williams and many politicians are out of step with what the country wants. Kiwis want all parts of the law and order process toughened up including the …
Pauline Colmar Poll on Crime Issues
This Poll was conducted in May 2011 on a sample of 1000 people 15 years and older spread throughout New Zealand, as per the population. These attitudes were measured by …
Goals of Sentencing – Why the Justice System is Failing
by Murray Tennent-BrownCommunications / Media AdvisorSensible Sentencing Trust Wellington Region The New Zealand criminal justice system is not just under-performing in its responsibilities to law-abiding New Zealanders, it is failing. …
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The Poison Chalice – Systematic Failures Within the New Zealand Mental Health System
A Presentation To the Annual Sensible Sentencing Trust Victims ConferenceNapier, September 2012by Graham Moyle, Mental Health Spokesman On Friday the 11th of May 2007 my older brother Colin returned to …
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